MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 648, 18 September 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Name for a female druggist—lpccaou Hannah. The best lines to invest in—The marriage linos. What goddess do Cockney babies most dislike? Wean ns. (Venus.) A now boat club stylo their hoat-h6uaa, Golgotha, the place of sculls. A man in the country announces that his golden wedding will come off just thirty years from now, and oilers alibe.ral discount on any presents his friends then design to make him.

Josh Billings say's : —“ lam violently opposed tew ardent speerits as a bev’ridge, but for manufacturin’ purposes I think a little of it tastes good. An editor published a leading article on hogs, whereupon his village contemporary and rival upbraided him for obtruding Ins family matters on the public. A recent medical writer says :—“ Sleep whenever you can—anywhere when you get a chance ; the great want of the age is sleep.” This is not always safe advice to follow, as one of our townsmen (say's a Canadian contemporary) knows to his cost. He was recently afflicted with a bad cold and, to cure himself of it resorted to the remedy of putting his feet in hot water, and drinking a tumblerful of strong whisky toddy, prescribed by an aged and respected friend of the family'. Having got everything in order for carrying out the prescrip, tion, he sat down by the lire, his feet immersed in warm water, and a tumbler of smoking toddy by his side. In this condition a sense of enjoyment stole over him as he sipped the exhilarating liquid, and he fell asleep. His wife had gone to bed, and, on awakening about three o’clock in the morning, wondered why she was alone. Going down-stairs she was bonified to see her liege lord asleep in his chair, the fire out, his fact still immersed in the water, over which a cake of ice was forming, and an empty tumbler on the chair beside him. His cold isn’t a bit hector.